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About the Author

I began my writing career back in 1996. Inspired by Ken Burns' PBS series The Civil War, and by a Civil War artist and co-worker named Todd Price, I decided to take a trip to the Gettysburg battlefield to see for myself what all of the interest was about. I was so inspired by the sights and feel of the battlefield, that I revisited the area several times over the next couple of years. That's when I felt I was motivated to the point where I begin writing a fictional story about the Battle of Gettysburg. That story was called, "Journey Across Time". Journey was a tough sell as is all fiction today, but I didn't let a little set back such as that keep me from writing. That story has been re-released by Black Rose Writing under the title of Destiny's Echo, and Todd Price's work, Into The Fire, is featured on the cover.

Around that time I asked a national columnist if he had any advice for a fledgling writer. His reply was simple: "If you must write, write." I took that to mean that if you want to write, don't let publication, or lack thereof, stand in your way. Write because you feel you have a unique way of telling a story. So I continued to write.

Just before 911, I began a non-fictional book about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. I thought I would let the people who lived through that period in our nation's history tell about that historic day through their eyes. I collected over 170 stories from people all across America telling where they were and what they were doing when they heard of the attack...and how it impacted their lives-short and long term. Even the publishers who rejected Reflections of Pearl Harbor said that the book, originally titled The Date Which Lives In Infamy, sounded like a neat project. Eventually, prestigous publisher Praeger (Greenwood) Publishing picked it up for hardcover, and it's still available in paperback.I followed Reflections up by landing publishers for Journey Across Time (Dailey Swan) and The Second Season (Vanilla Heart) in the same month. Vanilla Heart also liked my follow-up to The Second Season, A Different Drummer, so they signed me up for that one as well.

I self-published Spirit of the Season as it was actually a screenplay I penned the previous year. Since it was a 120-page screenplay, it would have been stretching the story too much to extend the content to more than 150 pages in novel form. Since it is a Christmas-themed story, not too many publishers would consider a short novel that would sell just two months out of the year. Thus, Fort Hamilton Publishing was born.

In late 2011, I completed a screenplay titled Destiny's Echo. From that, I turned the script into a 33,000 word short novel titled A Union of Souls. An e-publisher called The Fiction Works liked the story and agreed to feature the book on their site. The PB version is available through this website.

Since then, I have turned out works such as Destiny's Echo and The Reawakening, both published by Black Rose Writing out of Texas.​Today I consider myself an accomplished author with nine, and soon to be ten, published books to my credit, twelve edited screenplays under my belt, and I write a sports column for the Venice Cornerstone newspaper in Ohio. If you must write, write!

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